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otherwise there will ensue a ferocious and disastrous 
slaughter. If both are alike frightened all will go 
well, and the same if both are upon the wing in 
search of a home; but quite otherwise if one is 
self-possessed and active in its own abode, waile 
the others are frightened strangers and gorged, and 
it may be still further demoralised by having lived 
under an unfertile queen, or with none at all. But 
if both are cowed alike by a good drumming on the 
hives, they may be sprinkled so as to possess the 
same scent, and then taken to a third position and 
shaken out on to a sheet together, when they will 
enter the offered hive in harmony. If each colony 
has a queen, and a battle royal is not desired, one 
of them must be searched for and removed.” 
With frame hives, if the frames will interchange, a 
little smoking and sprinkling are administered to 
each, and then the frames containing bees in the 
one can be substituted for empty ones in the other: 
indeed, in this instance, the brood will be trans- 
ferred as easily as the bees. But, if the two hives 
have frames of different sizes, then the bees must be 
brushed from those of both hives on to a_ sheet, 
and there sprinkled a little more, and then intro- 
duced to their intended home. 
It may not be misplaced here to remark, that, in 
the language of apiculturists, the hives of the year, 
made up, as it is termed, for the winter, now assume 
the name of stocks. Hitherto they have been 
denominated swarms. At this time a good selection 
of stocks for removal at Christmas may be made by 
those about to establish an apiary. In addition 
